Contents Briefing
Ning Tie, the author, devoted six years to writing the novel, Local Cotton. Her humorous, penetrating vision finds expression in the story. Different from all of her other novels that concerned much about women's fate, this novel traces the story of Xiang's family, a typical family in a small village in Jizhong Plain in China, with such truth and emotional intensity that a plain tale happened in the period from the end of the Qing Dynasty to 1940's acquires depth.
Publisher Profile
The people's Literature Publishing House, founded in March 1951, is a national publishing institution whose subsidiary is the Foreign Literature Publishing House. It has published a considerable amount of classic Chinese literary works, representative works of modern and contemporary literature and Chinese versions of outstanding overseas literary works, as well as works on literary theories and children's books etc. Books published over the years have formed an excellent series of public... more about
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